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The Dry Season (lyrics)
You were born on the first morning after that cold winter
you were raised in a cavern in your mother’s heart
and you sucked at her breast until nothing was left over
and we buried her in a field ‘neath the withering corn
and you cried every night for forty days unforgiving
the only rain that fell in that season of drought
the dry season has come, there are no tears
the dry season has come, there are no tears for us now
at first it was hard with no circus and ponies
no teevee ipods or internet p*rn
we struggled to survive and hold on to our dignity
’til our faith dried up along with our dreams
we’ve used up the oil, and our waters and forests
and now all these fields of plenty are gone
the dry season has come, there are no tears
the dry season has come, there are no tears for us now
imagine there’s no humans it’s easy if you try to,
imagine no children, no laughter and song,
we’ve fouled up the oceans that fed all the billions
we’ve drained all the blood that nourishes the ground
the dry season has come and no rain has fallen and
no rain may fall for a thousand more years
the dry season has come, there are no tears
the dry season has come, there are no tears for us now
and so my child i leave this all to you
©2007, Duane Poncy
Listen to or download The Dry Season
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Despite the rising cost of oil, and increased drought, things are not too bad yet in Wilbur County. This is due to the foresight of many good people, and it’s why EcoSurvival Village chose to locate here on the edge of the Ochocos.
About 15 years ago the citizens of Germaine and Wilbur County decided to invest in the future. They believed that investing in alternative technology could help a small community in a cold northern desert survive, and even thrive. They invested in organic agriculture, solar and wind energy, and alternative farming methods.
The brave experiment proved that a small town and county could live nearly self-sufficiently. Most of our power is off the grid. Much of our fuel is non-petroleum based. And a large percentage of our food is grown organically in greenhouses, using sustainable methods.
Of course we are lucky to live in a little sheltered valley, protected from the bitter winds of the high desert, atop a number of artesian springs fed by the mountain aquafirs.
The people of our large, overbuilt cities, dependent on automobiles for transportation, and trucks for hauling produce and food are or will soon be sorely hurting. Energy collapse, and ecological disaster will leave many areas of the world uninhabitable. Borders will no longer have meaning as more and more refugees arrive.
What can we do to help? We can not hold any more people here in our fragile desert ecosystem. But maybe we can tell our story, and become an example.
And we stress, and will continue to do so, that alternative energy is not the whole answer. We must overthrow consumer capitalism. That is the name of the beast.
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While it is no surprise to those of us at EcoSurvival Village that oil shock has occured, the rapidity with which the finger-pointing social decline has already begun has caught us off guard. It proves a hypothesis which some have been promoting lately: change is going to arrive at a much faster pace than any “official” estimates from the scientific community.
While some of our readers will be inclined to see the advance of peak oil as a good thing –especially in regard to global warming– we want to provide a caution. Rapid economic breakdown is likely to cause much more death and destruction than a more gradual change will. War over resources will not benefit us.
On the other hand, cooperation to convert the economy to a more sustainable model has several positive points:
• community building and solidarity,
• preventing further damage to the earth’s ecology, which a resource war will undoubtably cause,
• avoidance of unnecessary death, and
• it will give us an opportunity to advance democracy and people power (on the other side of that coin is an increased danger of fascism),
As we step up our campaign against Malsanto on May Day, we ask you not to drive to the protest. Use your bicycles, or walk to the Germaine town square, and march with us to Malsanto headquarters in south Wilbur County.
Besides being the greatest threat to our planet’s food chain, remember that Malsanto is also one of the world’s largest producers of petroleum-based artificial fertilizers.
NO Oil Economy, NO Borders, NO Malsanto!!!
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The Council of the Other
The Council of the Other, the decision-making body of Planet Resist, issues the following communique to our friends “below and to the left,” as our compadres, the Zapatistas say.
We have entered into a new Situation. This change has nothing to do with the strength of our movement, although we believe that we are growing stronger. It has nothing to do with new dynamics in society, although we also believe there are new dynamics which favor our direction.
No, the new Situation grows directly from the anger of our mother, the earth who nourishes us. It is born from the exhaust pipes and chemical spew of The Destroyers. It is the result of our neglect, and our passivity, and our ignorance.
It is alarming, and it is necessary that we not hesitate to take action.
The Situation
The scientists of the world say that we have only a decade to turn around the Threat of Global Warming. However, they do not yet have the courage to tell us the full truth about the cause of our demise. That truth we call Consumer Capitalism. It is a system of endless consumption, which leads logically to death and destruction. It is a cancer which is eating our planet.
But, it is also the hypodermic needle which is feeding the addictions of the rich industrial north.
Do you understand this? Do you understand that your wasteful way of life is killing all of humanity? Do you understand that the very system which allows you to thrive must itself be destroyed?
The only way for the people of the earth to survive this coming disaster is for those of us in the rich north to come to a wisdom of Living in Balance. This new Radical Indigenism must grow out of the roots of the native peoples of this land, and of those who have become one with its soil.
Radical Indigenism
First, let us be clear, by Radical Indigenism, we are not referring to the empty intellectual discussions of the bourgeois ndn academics. We are talking here about radical practice to deliver the soil which nurtures our indigenous roots, from the hands of The Destroyers.
Five hundred years ago, the European Invaders brought to these continents the Western Ideology. That ideology has taken many forms as it has subjugated the people of the Amerikas. But in each and every one of its forms, it has promoted an elite hierarchy whose aim has been to extract the blood of the planet not for the betterment of humanity, but for the advancement of the elite, itself.
The capitalisms, and the conservatisms, and the fascisms, and the marxisms and the liberalisms, and the anarchisms are all invasive species. They suck the nutrients from our soil and destroy the ecosystems of the indigenous. Radical Indigenism is about taking back our soil, restoring our ecology, and growing our resistance from these ancient roots.
Who are the Destroyers?
The destroyers are the corrupt politicians, and the transnational corporations which feed their corruptions, and the media whores who soothe us with empty promises of sex and sexy cars, and the christian zealots who soothe us with their quick fix jesus opiates.
This is the army of the elite hierarchy, which we must destroy.
Our mother earth may be patient with us for a time. She may be our ally. But if we do not successfully challenge The Destroyers, she will turn on us as well, for then, we will all be complicit in the destruction.
Strategic Discussion
The Transnational Corporation, Malsanto, is at our doorstep. This company, which once developed Chemical Death for the war in Vietnam, now develops Chemical Death for the farmers of the north and the peasants of the south. It’s ultimate aim is to own a monopoly on life.
EcoSurvival Village calls on all concerned people of Germaine and Wilbur County to attend a discussion at the Germaine Public Library, “What to do about Malsanto.”
The questions will be: What is a Malsanto research facility doing in Wilbur County? How do we stop them? Who will stop them?
The answer to that last one is you, my friends, or no one. Act now.
Meeting: What To Do About Malsanto
Where: Germaine Public Library
When: Saturday, March 3, 1pm
Who: Everyone interested in stopping Malsanto
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I dreamed cousin Evo
came down from the mountains
carrying a single red rose
clasped firmly in his fist
and beside him walked the ghost of Che
and the ghost of El Libertador
and the ghosts
of the children
of the mothers
of the disappeared
and behind those
came the spirits
of the vanquished gods
Inti and Mama-Quilla
Pia and Makunaima
Kulimina and Kururumany
Ixchel and Votan
Yurakon and Jaluka
Selu, the corn mother
and Kanati, the hunter
Child Born of Water
and Monster Slayer
and after this phalange
there came the immense
river of the people
the lost millions
bearing the deep crimson
flowers of our tears
held high into the air
millions of red flowers
flowing north
like a great river of blood
washing away
a half-millenium of history
written in the language of guns
and whips and disease
by the cowboys and the conquistadors
sweeping before it
all of the borders and all of the walls
which seperate us from them
from all our relations
and they came dancing
into our waiting arms
and the soldiers of the empire
stood mouths agape
dropping their guns
for they knew
there was no holding back
the flood
now
©2006, Duane Poncy
Listen to Cousin Evo Came Down
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People everywhere should support the movement for local, sustainable agriculture in the heart of the nations second largest city. The right of local people to determine their own lives, and to use the land for their sustenance must be upheld through struggle. If you can make it to LA, we encourage all to do so.
In a press release issued today, the farmers said, “For over three weeks supporters have been onsite at the South Central Farm, the nation’s largest urban farm, which serves as a 14-acre oasis in the middle of L.A.’s concrete jungle. This 14-year-old community gem functions as an active farm for more than 350 families and fills a local need for fresh produce, green space and a safe haven in a poverty-stricken region of Los Angeles. The farmers, community volunteers and celebrity supporters are in a daily state of peril anxiously awaiting the farm’s fate.”
According to Dr. Joseph Hurwitz, Rabbi Emeritus, Temple Isaiah, Palm Springs: “The South Central Farm is a gem in the Los Angeles landscape. It supplies local communities with fresh, organic produce, gives children a safe environment to play and learn in, and provides a successful example of urban sustainability for the rest of the world to follow… ”
from the open publishing newswire:
The South Central Farm is under siege. If you live in LA or anywhere near there please make your way to the farm to keep the protesters and farmers safe. The immediate area around the Farm has been blocked off by the authorities limiting access to the site. Spontaneous rallies of support have sprouted on these perimeters with crowds increasing in size as the morning passes. Protesters still inside the Farm are being physically removed and arrested.
Once again, this is the Red Alert! The Sheriffs have begun and are carrying out the eviction! Mobilize as many people as you come to continue to protest this oppressive action Arrests have already been made. It is still unconfirmed but there are also reports that a protester was carried out on a stretche. Bulldozer positioned nearby have began breaking through the fences.
Once again, please converge to the Farm.
41st Street and Long Beach Ave. Los Angeles, CA
Thank you.
South Central Farmers website | NorthWest Rage
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Eco Survival Village and Planet Resist send sororial greetings of solidarity to the Nation of Bergonia from Germaine and Wilbur County, Oregon.
We invite Bergonians to visit our experiment in socialism and democracy, and to tour Wilbur County.
In turn, we encourage citizens of Eco Survival Village, and the greater communities of Wilbur County to visit Bergonia.
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Greetings. This is the first communication of Planet Resist to the people of the world.
From the forested mountains on the left coast of the North American Empire, we clearly see the great damage which has been done in our name to our peoples, to our fellow creatures, and to the planet which we call our home. We see the ravages of war, the ecocidal destruction of our environment, and the hunger for change all around us.
Here we are, in the belly of the great snake, living our lives of privilege and creative possibility, and we are awed by the responsibility that is ours to use that potential for the liberation, and thus survival, of our compañeros on this fragile earth.
What are we to do?
Like concerned people everywhere, there is confusion and disagreement among us about the best course to take. We have studied the struggles of our indigenous brothers and sisters in the Americas, in Chiapas, in Venezuela and Bolivia, and we have carefully pondered their significance to our own struggle for a just and inhabitable world.
We have also studied the science, which is speaking out cautiously (and much too cautiously, we believe) about the danger facing us. And while we have not yet come to consensus on all questions, we have come to a grave and urgent conclusion.
We must act. We must act with haste.
All evidence before us points to disaster, unless the North American Empire is halted in its present course of enslaving the peoples of the world, devouring it’s natural resources, and polluting Mother Earth beyond repair. According to many scientists, we have less than a decade to change our ways or perish. In the words of Guy Dubard, “revolution or death†is the only choice left us.
We must not succumb to the despair which cripples well-meaning people everywhere. We can and will change. It will not be easy, but we’re convinced that we must consciously move out of our comfortable lives, now. For this reason we have created EcoSurvival Village, here in the harsh climate of the Oregon High Desert, to sharpen our skills and harden our body and spirit.
We reject the “Grand Dialogues†of the 20th century, the marxisms and anarchisms and liberalisms, feminisms, nationalisms, and so on. Each of these contain pieces of truth, but none of them adequately address the present predicament of the 21st century. We must seek a new dialogue, a non-dogmatic, fluid, and adaptable strategy for survival.
Centralized solutions and ideological dogmas are the agenda for failure. The study of cultures which have survived past cataclysmic geological change show they have one thing in common: adaptability. It is the nomadic societies, able to pull up stakes and move to better climates, which were successful in the long expanse of time.
The structure of our village is based on the autonomous villages in Chiapas. Autonomy to us means that we do not recognize the authority of the state. We do, however, recognize its power. This is not Chiapas, where the villages are protected by the EZLN. We must co-exist with power, while trying to subvert it. Our struggle is not seperate from the struggles of our fellow citizens, and many of us live or work in surrounding communities.
We believe the way forward is through study, analysis, and discussion leading to consensus of the community. When the community, or a sub-group of the community, believe they have reasonable plan, they will act on it. We do not require sub-groups to obtain consent from the community as a whole, unless their action puts the larger community at risk. In that case, consent is always required. When an action is carried out, it is then discussed to determine its effectiveness, and what could have been done differently for a better result. Theory leads to practice leads to analysis which refines theory.
Who are we?
We are all who agree with our principles. We do not require a membership or a loyalty oath. We do not require that you live here, or that you even acknowledge us. Planet Resist is an idea. We are everywhere!
Seven Positive Principles of Planet Resist
- diversity in all things, social, economic, ecological and creative,
- democracy in all aspects of the political economy, including the workplace,
- autonomy of communities and individuals to create their own destiny,
- walking lightly, on the earth,
- basic human rights for all,
- social responsibility for the wellbeing of all, through mutual aid & community action, and
- poetry, that is, all have a right to poetry and creativity in their lives.
Each of these principles will be explored further in future communiques.
for the future,
and bread and poetry for all,
sub-ject minus
